Welcome to London, England, where the sky is clear, the
buildings are rigid like the Queen’s guard, and the upper crust of society has
willingly turned itself into creatures of the night. This is an England where
the elite are vampires and the shuffling masses of lower society are just that,
shuffling masses of zombies. Such is the world of THE NEW DEADWARDIANS, a new monthly
series from DC/Vertigo, a company that always continues to bring strange and
fresh horror to the table. Set in post-Victorian England, THE NEW DEADWARDIANS
adds new life to the ever stale zombie vs. vampire genre with a great mix of
crime, horror, drama, and of course, a good, heaping helping of gore.
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The tag line for Todd Jason Falcon Cook’s ZOMBIEFIED (on DVD
from Celebrity Home Entertainment) promises a lot: “Zombie Film, Slasher Film…The
Infection Begins.” Immediately the mind starts to race and figure out how a movie
could combine the best elements of FRIDAY THE 13TH and DAWN OF THE DEAD. While the
movie is somewhat fun, it doesn’t quite live up to that premise.
SPIKE: A DARK PLACE #1, just out from Dark Horse Comics,
unleashes Joss Whedon’s breakout character into an exciting solo adventure. The
brooding vampire with a soul finds himself looking aimlessly for any kind of
fight. He will do just about anything to ignore the pain of a broken heart.
BEWITCHED was like many other shows of the 1960s, a pure
slice of Americana about a couple living in the cozy suburbs—only with a
supernatural twist. The husband is an advertising executive and the wife is a
homemaker…and a witch! It ran for eight seasons on ABC, and the history of
BEWITCHED has now been told in this massive tome by David L. Pierce, from
BearManor Media.
I’m a ridiculously passionate fangirl when it comes to
supernatural movies. They are the equivalent of my horror turn-on. Where
monsters and psychopaths might leave me giggling like I just got off a good rollercoaster,
ghosts, demons or poltergeists cause me to glow euphorically.
Introducing his directorial debut THE VICTIM at Montreal’s
Fantasia festival this summer, Michael Biehn described it as the cinematic
equivalent of “cotton candy.” The movie may not be sweet, exactly, but it does
deliver a sugar rush for exploitation fans.
If horror is your game, you really had only one solid choice
for a good scare on the major networks in recent years: the effortlessly
inventive SUPERNATURAL. After last season, however, we now have a very capable
second hand in the war against bad reality programs and even worse scripted
shows: NBC’s GRIMM.
MEETING EVIL is a suspense thriller from NIGHTSTALKER and S.
DARKO’s Chris Fisher (now on DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) with a
surprisingly decent cast and an unsalvageably faulty script. Luke Wilson stars
as John, a simple, mild-mannered family man who is married to Joanie (Leslie
Bibb from MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN) and appears to be having a streak of unusually
bad luck.